Survey Says: Creating a More Focused Approach to Student Surveys

This session will highlight some of the challenges encountered in survey development and administration and how they were addressed. We will illustrate how we redesigned and aligned our surveys so that they covered the same essential topic areas to measure student knowledge, skills and dispositions. Additionally we will share best practices considered for gathering useful and robust data in order to work towards our goal of providing the most effective and quality educational programs for our students.

Friday7-8 AMColumbia 11, 12 (Terrace)

Field Experience Transformation: From Pitfalls to Prosperity

Start your day off right with coffee and pastries in our Tk20 Product Theater. Faced with decades-old, paper-based administrative and assessment processes, Alma College started their Tk20 journey with Field Experience. During the first year, they gathered assessment data on field placements, streamlined office procedures, and made data-driven program observations as a result of a year-end “data party.” Check out this session to learn how they found a better way forward and you can, too.